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Match the following vocabulary terms with their meanings.

-Portion of the brain just above the spinal cord; controls breathing, heartbeat, and size of blood vessels


Definitions:

Left-Brained

The notion that people who are "left-brained" tend to be more logical, analytical, and objective in their thought processes.

Right-Brained

A popularized concept suggesting that the right hemisphere of the brain is more involved in creative and intuitive processes.

Dendrites

The branched projections of a neuron that act to conduct the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma.

Skill

A learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.

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